Dick Curtis
Birthday: 1902-05-11
Place of Birth: Newport, Kentucky, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dick Curtis (May 11, 1902 – January 3, 1952) was an American actor who made over 230 film and television appearances during his career. Curtis was born Richard Dye in Newport, Kentucky. Standing at 6' 3", Curtis appeared in films stretching from Charles Starrett to The Three Stooges. In most of his films, he played villains or heavies. He made television appearances on The Lone Ranger and The Range Rider. He appeared in California Gold Rush, Spook Town, The Gene Autry Show, and many others. Though his forte was in villainous roles, Curtis had a genuine comedic touch. As such, modern audiences will recognize Curtis for his roles in such Three Stooges films as Yes, We Have No Bonanza, You Nazty Spy!, and The Three Troubledoers. With the help of his friend and actor Russell Hayden, Curtis helped develop Pioneertown, a western movie set location in Southern California that was used for many television and film westerns.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
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North of Shanghai
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Get Along, Little Zombie
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Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
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Wild Horse Round-Up
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Two-Fisted Rangers
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Trail of Vengeance
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Blake of Scotland Yard
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Flying G-Men
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Waterfront
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The Awful Goof
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Lady in the Death House
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Stick to Your Guns
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The Traitor
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Outside These Walls
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Jackass Mail
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The Phantom
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Women in Prison
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Flat Foot Stooges
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Yes, We Have No Bonanza
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Crash Goes the Hash
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The Three Troubledoers
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Three Arabian Nuts
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Don't Throw That Knife
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Rawhide
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Whirlwind
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Men Without Souls
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The Texas Rangers
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The Shadow
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Code of the Mounted
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You Nazty Spy!
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
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Higher Than a Kite
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
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Behind Prison Gates
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Ghost Patrol
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Lost City of the Jungle
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Wildcat Trooper
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Phantom Patrol
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Lorna Doone
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Bar-Z Bad Men
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Guns in the Dark
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A Lawman Is Born
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Boothill Brigade
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The Gambling Terror
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Mandrake the Magician
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Overland with Kit Carson
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The Game That Kills
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Crashing Through Danger
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
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Tell It to the Marines
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Men of San Quentin
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Racing Luck
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Western Frontier
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Blondie
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
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Homicide Bureau
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The Nitwits
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The Famous Ferguson Case
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Northern Frontier
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Let Us Live
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Bride and Gloom
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Glove Slingers
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Off Again, On Again
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Arizona Cyclone
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Skybound
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Ragtime Cowboy Joe
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Bullets for Rustlers
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Texas Stagecoach
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Western Caravans
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Adventure in Sahara
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Mystery Ship
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The Lion's Den
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Scarlet Street
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You Can't Take It with You
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Smashing the Spy Ring
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The Lady Objects
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Rawhide
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Blondie on a Budget
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Snooper Service
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Lawless Breed
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City Streets
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Burning Gold
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My Son Is Guilty
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Wyoming
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Trails of the Wild
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The Singing Buckaroo
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Boom Town
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Three Men from Texas
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Rio Grande
No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp C...
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The Old Wyoming Trail
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including ...
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Outlaws of the Prairie
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West of the Santa Fe
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Valley of Terror
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Rose of Cimarron
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents....
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Abilene Town
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Outpost of the Mounties
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupu...
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Spoilers of the Range
Hero Jeff Strong (Starrett) comes to the rescue of a group of victimized ranchers. The villains are ...
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The Stranger from Texas
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement...
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs....
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The Arizonian
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and d...
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The Son of Monte Cristo
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil Gen...
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Terry and the Pirates
Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son...
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The Druggist's Dilemma
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough star as a couple of wacky soda jerks. They do a high wire act while ...
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Salute to the Marines
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese inva...
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Rock Island Trail
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area....
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Traffic in Crime
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as a...
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Vengeance of the West
Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his pr...
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Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the ...
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Shut My Big Mouth
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west....
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Covered Wagon Raid
Under the leadership of a cutthroat named Grif, a band of outlaws has systematically been robbing an...
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Across the Sierras
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knoc...
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Roar of the Iron Horse
Columbia Pictures elevated stunt man Jock O'Mahoney to stardom in this 15 chapter western serial abo...
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Juvenile Court
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death ...
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Blazing Six Shooters
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bende...
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Wagon Wheels Westward
In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that ...
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California Gold Rush
California Gold Rush is set in 1849. Ryder heads to Sutter's Mill, where he must contend with claim-...
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Santa Fe Uprising
The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot...
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Cowboy in the Clouds
A rancher who becomes a pilot staunchly defends the newly formed Civil Air Patrol from the cattle ba...
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The Roundup
A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble....
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Pioneers of the Frontier
Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman,...
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Spook Town
Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to financ...
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Song of Arizona
Roy Rogers rides to the rescue when a bank robber's orphaned son (Tommy Cook), who is living at a ra...
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Wild Beauty
In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor w...
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Pardon My Gun
In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through ...
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The Vanishing Westerner
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Billy the Kid
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Navajo Trail Raiders
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We Want Our Mummy
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I Can Hardly Wait
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Honky Tonk
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Mystery of the Riverboat
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ...
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So Ends Our Night
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Murder in Greenwich Village
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Life Begins with Love
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Mutiny Ahead
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure....
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl....
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Colorado Trail
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Mandrake the Magician
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, a...
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Time Out for Trouble
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City of Silent Men
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Batman
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Riders of Black River
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King Kong
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My Six Convicts
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Up the River
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Moonlight on the Range
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Taming of the West
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The Main Event
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Scared Stiff
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The Outriders
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Cattle Raiders
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The Thundering West
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Law of the Plains
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The Tooth Will Out
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Two Yanks in Trinidad
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